Single-player games like Western Rye
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Western Rye, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Rinthine
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Brave the depths of an ever-changing labyrinth in search of secrets, treasures—or simply a place to call home.
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Elysium
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
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Stormforge
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
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Forty-Niner
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Immerse yourself in a survival and exploration game set in a procedural Wild West world. Choose your role, and set out to prove your legend on the frontier by building, mining, and battling alone or with friends.
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Red Rust Pioneers
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Build a new life in the Wild West open world of Red Rust Valley, alone or with up to 4 players in co-op. Hunt, farm, raise animals and craft through the changing seasons in this survival game as your camp grows from a canvas tent to a homestead. Free land, open skies, and a world worth exploring.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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MISERY
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Western Rye — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Western Rye.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.